The Micklehurst Loop

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  1. Roger Farnworth

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    In the last two weeks of January 2021 my wife and I followed the length of the Micklehurst Loop from Stalybridge to Diggle. We had been looking for new local walks to undertake in the spirit of lockdown. The route proved to be a gem. Each day that we walked we travelled along part of the Loop line and then crossed to the neighbouring Huddersfield Narrow Canal for the return journey. Everything was enhanced by the presence of a number of cafes providing take-away drinks, cakes and some more substantial food. Each day we walked around 5 miles, there and back.

    This is the first of a number of posts covering the Loop line. ................

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/01/31/the-micklehurst-loop-part-1
     
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    A second addendum to the first post about the Micklehurst Loop.

    Just a few days after I completed addendum 1A about the first length of The Micklehurst Loop and particularly about Staley and Millbrook Station and Goods Yard, I heard from James Ward who recollected some photographs taken by his father of the demolition of the Spring Grove Viaduct.

    He also pointed out a series of photographs on the 'Timepix' website. These are predominantly photographs of the Greater Manchester Revision Point Collection undertaken by/on-behalf-of the Ordnance Survey in the early 1950s and are held by Manchester Libraries. The introduction to the 'Timepix' website makes it clear that all of their watermarked images are free to download and share.

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/15/the-micklehurst-loop-part-1b
     
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    Interesting reading Roger.
    Always seems to be far less trees in the old photos.
     
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    An addendum to earlier posts about this short line. .....

    https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/09/09/the-micklehurst-loop-once-more

    While on holiday in September 2021, I was reading older copies of the magazine BackTrack from the turn of the millennium, from, at that time, Atlantic Publishers. (More recent editions are published by Pendragon Publishing.)

    Volume 14 No. 3, March 2000 included an article by Jeffrey Wells [1] about the Micklehurst Loop (p142ff).
     
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    That's some read...didnt get through it all as need reading strength for my studies and its wore me out....great to dig up the old secrets of whats lurking under and around the old towns...most of our historic rails over here in Western Australia are now walk and Cycle paths and have been pulled and replaced with road base and sections with large information signs of what had been.
     
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    Since publishing a series of articles about the Micklehurst Loop, I have, over the past couple of years, kept my eye open for interesting shots of the line. This is a selection of these that I have permission to share .... A big thank you to copyright holders/photographers. Their details appear with each image.

    These photographs can be found on this link:

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/03/01/the-micklehurst-loop-once-more-2
     

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